| Show Girl jirl in Red Discovered By Chicago Police Tells Of Outlaws Outlaw's Last D Days ysl Knew Lawrence La She Reveals Reveals Reveals Re Re- v ne Dillinger as Says Face in Watch atch Was V as That of i Divorcee Sweetheart of Bandit CHICAGO July 25 The The girl In red who walked with John Dillinger er Into a B government ambuscade Sunday Sunda night In front of the theater w was found last Jast night She gave her name as Mrs Anna Miller 2 2420 North Halsted street and said she was wa formerly known as asAnna asAnna asAnna Anna Gage The girl whose picture was In DIllinger's watch Mrs Miller caid nId Is Mrs Rita Keele also known as Polly PoUy Hamilton who has ha gone to her ber mothers mother's home In Fargo Farco N. N D D. It developed that Mrs di die voiced from Roy Keele In Gary lad Ind I last It t April and whose maiden name was Hamilton was vas the latest of oC Dil- Dil lingers linger's sweethearts The two met meth metin in h Mrs 1 Millers Miller's apartment and Police Captain Thomas Du Duff Duffy said paid he hc bc be believed Mrs Miller had hud sheltered Dillinger Dil linger for or several everal weeks knowingly or unknowingly Whether cither Mrs Miller Hamilton gave the information n on which Dillinger was VIS located W was was' ls' ls not learned Captain Duffy fluffy s said aid id Mrs Miller was vas as reluctant to talk about the plain man roan whom she said she knew as M Gene or James LaWrence and claimed not to know whether Polly had passed the word that meant the end of End Grilling Grilling- Whether either cither is entitled to the reward offered for lor Dillinger's capture capture cap capture ture dead or alive or will be claimants claimants claim claim- ants therdor was not told The secrecy that government off orne I dais thre threw v about the source of the information that enabled them to wipe the name of or Dillinger off of their I books was in operation Department of j justice men hastened hastened hastened has has- to 13 the police st station tion and ended further questioning of the woman By that time however Mrs Miller had said ald she formerly lived at 1349 Van Buren Duren street Gary Ind md and was well acquainted with Sergeant Martin of or the East Chi cago Ind lad police department the theman theman theman man credited with running Dillinger to earth and who it was believed would obtain the major part of the reward for the killing of Dillinger nger Mrs l Miller admitted that Dillinger had been in her apartment on three or four evenings denying that he had roomed in her home for several weeks She said Polly Polly Mrs Keele Keele- Keele was an n old acquaintance whose fa- fa therm's theris a minister in Fargo N N. 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D Rons Runs Down Alley Polly she said kept company compan wi with h Dillinger who was using the name of Gene or Jim Lawrence Poll Polly told her Lawrence would not tell her his business nor give her his home telephone nu number nuber ber because he was married and didn't want her to get et entangled with his wife Mrs Miller said she ran down the alley elley and to her home immediately after otter Dillinger was killed The theater theater thea thea- ter they attended is at 2433 Lincoln avenue less than a block from rom 2420 North Halsted street Mrs Miller said Eaid id she hurriedly got rid of her red dress and then went back and joined the crowd in front o of the thc thc theater ter b but t that Polly Folly would not go back with her Polly PoU- she said hurried to the room she rented at the Maiden Malden Plaza h hotel tel spent Sunday night there and then on Monday went to the home of her parents at Fargo Detective Frank Slattery of the Sheffield avenue station identified Mrs Miller a. a as the woman in red whom he seized by the arm a second or two after Dillinger fell feU before a barrage of gunfire He said a man who flashed a government badge shouted to him Leave that woman alone nIone we are government men and he released his hold on her and she disappeared Two Girls Reported witnesses Eye-witnesses had reported two girls girts as being with Dillinger one ina in ina a red dress and about aboul their being placed in an an automobile and other conflicting statements Melvin Mclvin H. H I Purvis chief of at the thc ocal oal bureau of ol the department of justice had Shad em ern denied having Dillinger's feminine companions companion in custody The government men e did all in their power to w shield the two women but an accidental report sent ent the police police po po- po- po lice to the flat at 2420 North Halsted street second floor In the belief that it was the Dillinger hideout There they found John Deveaux jan jan- manager Deveaux said a man who wore glasses and a mustache and who was about Dillinger's size had been there I for lor three or four weeks and he was of the opinion Mrs Miller had rented him hint a room He knew that Pony Polly Mrs Keele was Keele-was was a frequent nt visitor at the home of Mrs Miller Shown a picture of Dillinger the janitor said laid he thought it was the same man he saw in Mrs M Millers Miller's apartment Recalls Stein Dilliner Later he said be he thought Mrs Miller Miller Mil Mil- ler accompanied the couple first questioned Mrs Miller said said ahe he lived alone there with her son and was receiving alimony She Is 43 41 years old and her son Steve is about 16 It was decided to to take her to the station for tor questioning and the Investigation had just started when I it was was was' haJ halted d by the Purvis aids Polly pony it was learned had been employed as a waitress at a Wilson avenue restaurant until ten days ago alo Her gentleman friend called for lor her every night in h his hs s automobile other waitresses said and finally per her to give up her job William Hertenstein owner of the restaurant and the other waitresses said laid they were now convinced it was Dillinger who called f fo for Polly Folly every night Polly was chummy with another another an an- other waitress Maxine Dunn the police po po- l lice ice were told and on Monday Polly Folly called Maxine and asked her to go 10 g get t her clothes Confides In P Policeman Maxine said she had the tho telephone number Lincoln at which PoU Polly Folly kept her clothes That was the number number num num- ber of ot the telephone in the Miller flat fIat an unpublished number Poll Polly Folly had remarked that Gene is a funn funny fellow he doesn't want to tell anything anything any any- thing about him himself the other girls said and they were of oC the belief bellef Polly Folly did not know Gene was really really realy real real- l ly y Dillinger It was believed Mrs Miller penetrated Dillinger's dis dis' disguise guise Having guessed that Mr Ir Lawrence Lawrence Law rence was Mr Dillinger she had confided that guess to her friend Sergeant Karkov Karkovich ch who did the rest police theorized Edward Miller manager of the Maiden Malden Plaza hotel said Polly explained ex cx- her absence from rom her apartment apart ment by saying she had been in an automobile accident and that while she was not injured she was wac caring for friends who were ere injured and was sleeping at the home o of those injured injured in in- friends The orne young woman had bad s spent nt but buta a night or oI or two a week in her rooms during the last five weeks week Miller said and the rent was pa paid d i in itt advance ad vance up to next Friday Polly Folly came home about bome bout about midnight S Sunday rida the manager said and left in the morning morn morning ing and had not returned Room Ransacked On Monday two t men who showed government badges were admitted to her room and after ransacking it it departed he said Today police found in it her marriage certificate showing showing show how howing ing she was married in m 1929 to Ro Roy C. C Keele at Calumet City Ill III There was a letter Jetter from a law Jaw firm telling her Roy had obtained a divorce from her in Gary Ind md last April 30 From Fargo N. N ND D. D came word that Mrs or Polly Folly Hamilton as she is known there left for Chicago last December after a stay with her par par- eats Her husband was said to be a I policeman in the Gary Ind lad steel pJ plant nt and she has a brother Robert Robed working for an oil company in Chi cago She was reported to be 26 years old and a graduate of the Fargo high school Saw Dillinger Shot Detective e Slattery said he saw the killing kUling of Dillinger and he said themen the themen men who did the shooting were East Chicago policemen and not government government govern govern- ment agents This would conflict t with sworn testimony at the inquest given by Agent Samuel A A. A Cowley that government agents alone did the shooting Cowley in some quarters was credited with doing the shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing himself but hut today Mr Purvis made a denial that it was Cowley According to Slattery who happened happened hap hap- on the scene without previous knowledge that Dillinger was within a thousand miles mUes of him said it appeared ap appeared to him that Sergeant Martin Karkovich and Policeman Glyn Stretch both of Indiana were the only ones who fired Dillinger is dead and the Dillinger Dillin Dillin- ger case is dead as far as I am concerned concerned con con- Chief Purvis said this after ater noon I 1 have 1600 other cases to occupy my attention and I am not going to talk about the Dillinger case any more Purvis Funis Criticised The name of anyone getting the reward or part of oC it will never be made public by the government Captain Timothy ONcil of ot the East Chicago police said last night it was wasa a big error to have allowed Purvis to g give gc c out the story of at the shadowing and the killing of Dillinger Where we wc East Chicago policemen made our big error was In allowing Mr Purvis to handle the publicity Captain ONeil O'Neil said and if it we had to go all aU through it again I think th the publicity setup would have been dif ferent All this talk about a woman woman In fri I Ired red dress tipping us off concerning Dillinger's whereabouts is untrue |
